Globalization and Empire: The U.S. Invasion of Iraq, Free Markets, and the Twilight of Democracy

By Stephen John Hartnett and Laura Ann Stengrim

Book Overview

A pointed diagnosis of the fate of democracy in an age of globalization and empire. This bookprobes the discrepancies separating President Bush's stated reasons for waging war on Iraq, the deeper political and economic reasons for the invasion, and the consequences of the Bush administration's policies for the future of globalization.As the reconstruction of Iraq wobbles forward, tarnished by waves of deadly bombings and mounting charges of crony capitalism, many observers have come to consider the occupation a case study of the future of globalization, literally a harbinger of how the U.S. intends to build the post-9/11 world in its own image.
Globalization and Empire offers a critique of the arguments for waging war on Iraq, an examination of the foreign policy principles driving that war, an analysis of the economic dilemmas of globalization, and an expos of the innerworkings of the reconstruction of Iraq. Moving from analysis to action, the book's appendix offers a comprehensive reader's guide to the anti-war and anti-corporate globalization movements, thus providing readers with practical options for re-energizing the practices of democracy both in America and abroad.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817315012
• ISBN13: 9780817315016
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.4"